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Harmonix has announced that it will be collaborating with several artists who have previously done videogame work, to bring new original music to the reboot of the rhythm action game.
In a press release sent to VG247, Harmonix confirmed that artists Jim Guthrie (Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Indie Game: The Movie), Anamanaguchi (Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World), Danny Baranowsky (Super Meat Boy, Canabalt), C418 (Minecraft), Kasson Crooker (FreQuency, Amplitude, Symbion Project) and and Freezepop (FreQuency, Amplitude), will all produce original tracks for the game.
"We’re thrilled to be able to collaborate with these incredible artists who have proven themselves more than capable of delivering amazing tracks and setting the tone for some of our favourite games," said Amplitude Creative Lead, Ryan Lesser. "Alongside the new original music our audio team is composing, we can’t wait to hear what they bring to Amplitude!"
This morning we learned that Harmonix is only able to bring the game to PS3 and PS4. The Kickstarter campaign is trucking along with four days to go, $368,396 out of the $775,000 goal has already been gathered, at the time of writing.


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''Sex'''s Carrie and Charlotte star in new ads -- Sarah Jessica Parker pitches for the Gap while Kristin Davis is the new face of Maybelline
Sex sells, or at least that’s what Maybelline New York is hoping. The cosmetics giant has tapped ”Sex and the City”’s Kristin Davis to be the new face of thirtysomething beauty in an ad campaign launching this winter.
And with castmate and hawker for Maybelline sister company GarnierSarah Jessica Parker making a fall into the Gap’s new campaign, ”Sex”-ing up ads may be the hottest trend since the return of the Chanel jacket.
”People are so familiar with the show that they feel like they know us,” says Davis. ”In Sarah’s case, she’s so fashionable and original that the Gap seems like the perfect fit.”
But really…the Gap? Maybelline? What would Park Avenue princess (and likely La Mer devotee) Charlotte think of all this?
”She’d love it!” says Davis, who just inked a development deal with HBO and lends her voice to Nickelodeon’s ”Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends” this fall. ”Makeup — especially a brand like this — helps you re-create yourself and feel beautiful.” Even Miranda couldn’t make a case against that.

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An agricultural business used RDP support to improve its capacity to process and store its produce, while producing renewable energy from the sun.
An example of how afforestation allows for the development and maintenance of farm lands where crop cultivation is almost impossible.
Rural coworking spaces create opportunities for cooperation and innovation in rural areas while helping to attract new professionals to settle in the countryside.
A pilot project to demonstrate the environmental and economic benefits of using solar energy.
A young female farmer introduced a blackberry plantation into a wheat and barley production area and created added value by developing a new range of products. This was the winning initiative of the 2019 Rural Inspiration Awards in the 'Improving competitiveness' category.
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Americans typically eat 1.5 times the recommended sodium limit of 2,300 mg. According to new research, the average restaurant meal at a full-service restaurant delivered more than 3,500 mg of sodium (yikes!). That’s why cooking healthier meals is key to limiting your salt intake. You can boost flavor without reaching for the salt shaker (or at least use less salt) by using herbs and spices and adding vinegar or citrus to foods. Try a squeeze of lemon on fish or chicken, a drizzle of balsamic vinegar and olive oil over salad, or dried herbs like oregano and rosemary in soups.
Recipe to Try: Salmon with Toasted Israeli Couscous
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You can greatly improve your diet and clean it up in a snap by cutting back on processed and packaged foods, which can be full of sodium, added sugars and sometimes ingredients we can’t pronounce. Try cooking up a stir-fry at home instead of getting takeout, or making homemade pizza instead of frozen.
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Imagine if there was a food (or category of foods) that could single-handedly lengthen your life.
Well, such a wonder food may actually exist.
A new study published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), showed that people who ate a 1-ounce serving of nuts seven or more times each week had a 20 percent lower death rate than those who didn’t eat any.
It’s important to note this was merely an observational study, and not one where researchers controlled which group of participants ate nuts (and how much) and then studied who lived longer. Yet the positive findings in this study support the abundance of other data demonstrating the health benefits of eating nuts, including lowering risk of heart disease, cancer and stroke.
For example, another recent study—this one published in Metabolism—showed men and...read full post »
Find out whether there are health benefits to taking krill oil instead of fish oil and whether you should take a krill oil supplement.
As its name implies, krill oil is oil extracted from krill—tiny sea-dwelling crustaceans—and made into a soft-gel capsule. Krill are a rich source of DHA and EPA, omega-3 fats that promote heart and brain health and reduce inflammation.
Krill oil is often touted as a supplement superior to fish oil: preliminary research suggests that our bodies better absorb omega-3s from krill oil than from fish oil. In other words, you’d need a smaller dose of omega-3s if they’re coming from krill. But here’s the catch: to get enough omega-3s you’d still have to actually swallow more krill-oil pills than fish-oil pills, because the amount of DHA and EPA in a single krill-oil pill is typically much lower. And krill...read full post »
If you’re resolving to eat healthier this year, consider starting in the kitchen. Mastering a few easy cooking skills can do wonders for your health and your waistline. Here are a few simple tips to get you started:
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Regular breakfast eaters tend to be leaner, and breakfast-eating dieters are more successful at losing weight. What’s more, studies have found that they also get more fiber, calcium, vitamins A and C, riboflavin, zinc and iron—and less fat and dietary cholesterol. But the key is a balanced breakfast. That means having whole grains, protein...


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Microsoft CMO: Company Must Transform Marketing or Fail
Microsoft must transform its marketing in the next three years or fail, said Chief Marketing Officer Chris Capossela during a presentation at the ANA's Masters of Marketing conference.
He laid out a six-point plan that included a focus on: freemium innovation; building marketing into products; modern storytelling; ad platforms not ad campaigns; world's best data platform; and a bigger role for the Microsoft brand.
Mr. Capossela is in his second stint as CMO at Microsoft. The 22-year company veteran was appointed earlier this year by CEO Satya Nadella. He also held the position from April 2011 to July 2013.
Microsoft is thinking carefully about how to offer services that are "basically free," in an effort to get users more engaged with the brand and vocal on its behalf. He offered Skype as an example of freemium innovation, explaining that while it's free for consumers, the enterprise version, Lync, features paid features important to corporate IT teams.
"Freemium changes the way we market because you focus on engagement not the sale," he said.
The company is also working to do a better job of building marketing into its products. Windows phones, for example, automatically store photos in OneDrive. And OneNote automatically displays when users click the pen that comes with their SurfacePro. Those integrations eliminate the need to spend money marketing OneDrive or OneNote, Mr. Capossela explained.
Mr. Capossela said the company is working to tell its stories via its corporate site. And it will be moving toward unifying disparate areas of its business under the Microsoft brand name, replacing the Windows or Nokia brand on certain products.
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A lot has been said and written lately about the “aging” of the automotive specialty-equipment industry. Built over roughly six decades by hands-on parts and hardcore speed and performance innovators, the automotive aftermarket is now an industry topping $30 billion. However, questions currently abound over whether it will continue to attract younger enthusiasts—not only as consumers but as entrepreneurs.
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The SEMA Young Executives Network (YEN) celebrates young entrepreneurs by announcing the first-ever “SEMA Launch Pad” contest. This new competition offers executive-level innovators under the age of 40 an industry platform to showcase their business plan for marketing a new automotive product or service.


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I don’t know if this is genius timing or the opposite (leaning towards the latter), but daily deals site Groupon, which is rumored to be holding a board meeting tomorrow about a possible Google deal, has chosen tonight of all nights to launch its Groupon 2.0 platform which truth be told is pretty farsighted . Everything else aside, the whole concept is extremely smart especially with regards to how we will all probably be shopping in the future, i.e. socially.
Groupon Stores is pretty remarkable when you realize that merchants can now offer customizable Groupon deals whenever they want by going here, claiming their store and creating a deal themselves with no middleman and just a 10% commission on all sales, as opposed to the 50% the company usually takes off.
From today on merchants in select cities can set up their own Groupon distribution presence as well as run their own offers like this one. In addition, merchants can submit deals for Groupon promotions and perform hardcore customer retention management by getting customers to follow their individual stores on Groupon, Twitter style — a total boon for advertisers.
And just like Facebook has its Newsfeed, Groupon will now have a Deal Feed section in its user profiles, allowing a casual user to follow all the individualized deals and merchants that pertain to them. Groupon’s Deal Feed will let you see a stream of deals personalized to you including daily deals in your area, merchants you follow and recommendations for merchants you should be following.
Groupon CEO Andrew Mason says that the company’s product expansion is the most logical thing to do when thinking about its massive scale (the company is reportedly making $500 million in annualized revenue), “Today things are different – our biggest problem is that demand is so high, merchants often wait months to be featured. And while we once only had a few thousand customers per city, now we have hundreds of thousands – making it increasingly difficult to find one deal that satisfies everyone.”
With its most recent move, Groupon, which has 33 million subscribers in 35 countries, is poised to satisfy almost every merchant or advertiser who wants a slot. The new features launch as of today in Chicago, Dallas, and Seattle, and should be rolling out to rest of us plebes shortly.


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Grain Discovery marketing app planned for U.S. in 2021
Adopting Grain Discovery’s app was a no-brainer for Jeff Curry.
“I actually signed up on the spot when I first tried it because I immediately saw how this would change my business,” says Curry, Sharedon Farms, Owen Sound, Ontario. “As a sole operator, the time savings are invaluable and will allow me to build a better connection with my farmers.”
The app, which was recently released by the Ontario-based start-up, streamlines the current process of buying and selling grain.
“By allowing live pricing, and an industry-first instant contract confirmation, we’re eliminating missed marketing opportunities and tedious jobs like juggling calls and manual paperwork,” says Rory O’Sullivan, Grain Discovery CEO. “That’s game changing, and I’m thrilled with the response so far.”
“With this app, my farmers have all their information at their fingertips, so they can make informed decisions,” says Tiffany Spearing, general manager of Lockie Farms Grain Elevator, Zephyr. “It’s very easy to use. We have farmers in their 20s using it, and we have farmers in their 80s using it. And for me, I have additional communication options to reach customers, plus the ability to buy directly via target offers simplifies my buying process.”
Key features of the Grain Discovery app include:
Personalization. Grain buyers receive their own branded app with grain origination and portfolio management software.
Live marketplace. Buyers post their live bids to farmers who can confirm deals instantly, or post their own target offers.
Portfolio. Users can view tickets, deliveries, contracts, and settlements anytime, anywhere.
Communication. Messaging and alert functions enhance the connection between buyers and farmers.
Currently available across Ontario, the company plans to expand into North America and Australia in 2021. The app is free for farmers and available to download from the Apple app store. Farmers should check with their local grain buyers for availability. Buyers can sign up for the app through Grain Discovery.
Learn more by visiting graindiscovery.com.
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US corn futures closed higher, fueled by speculative buying tied to a weaker U.S. dollar and spillover support from strong gains in soybean futures. Corn is rebounding from losses from earlier in the week, as traders even positions ahead of next week's closely watched prospective planting and stocks report from USDA, analysts say. The absence of fresh news to direct prices kept traders focused on movement in soybean futures. Corn can't afford to become a less attractive planting option economically compared to soybeans amid the need to rebuild depleted U.S. corn supplies next year. CBOT May corn ended up 2c at $6.46 1/2/bushel.
US wheat futures ended higher, with CBOT wheat settling at a one-week high. Speculative short covering ahead of the weekend and next week's key government crop reports encouraged traders to reduce risk exposure in the market, analysts say. Spring wheat futures garnered additional support from concerns farmer may opt to plant corn at the expense of wheat in the Northern Plains, analysts say. Otherwise, US dollar weakness provided general strength in commodity markets. CBOT May wheat ended up 8c at $6.54 1/4/bushel; May MGEX wheat finished up 10 1/4c to $8.17 1/4; and May KCBT wheat ended up 10 1/2c at $6.94 1/2.
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US soybean futures finished higher, boosted by concerns about possible low US plantings and tighter supplies than expected. Those risks are being priced in ahead of USDA acreage and inventory reports due next Friday. Support also comes from hopes for more Chinese demand and expectations for a smaller South American soy crop. CBOT May soybeans end up 16 1/4c at $13.65 3/4 a bushel.
May soymeal rose $2.90 to $373/short ton, and May soyoil ends up 0.92c to 54.88 cents/lb.
Oat futures ended higher, pulled up by higher corn and wheat futures. Oats for May delivery finished up 4 3/4 cents to $3.33 a bushel.
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US rice futures closed higher, supported by broad strength in commodities, with crude oil and wheat and corn futures all up. CBOT May rice ends up 19 1/2c or 1.4% at $14.60 a hundredweight.
US lean-hog futures dropped following the USDA's bearish cold-storage report, which showed a bigger-than-expected increase in pork, highlighting sluggish domestic sales. "Demand has slowed down for a number of key products," says Alton Calo of Steiner Consulting. He adds while prices can still be expected to rise seasonally into the summer, the climb might be more modest than normal. CME April lean hogs end down 0.375c at 85.025c/pound.
CME live cattle futures ended lower, falling to a six-week low before trimming declines. The market's slide to fresh lows, driven in part by demand concerns, triggered pre-set sell orders and more speculative liquidation, says Scot Miller of Scot A. Miller and Associates. Adds that fallout from the so-called "pink slime" controversy is weighing. "That has had some impact at the retail level, it appears." Traders awaiting Friday afternoon's cattle on feed report. CME April live cattle ends down 0.75c to $1.245/lb, after falling as low as $1.235. CME April feeder cattle ends down 1.175 to $1.52425/lb.
CME lumber futures rallied on discounts to current cash quotes and short-covering following the recent steep slide. The market had also become technically oversold on Thursday's break, leaving short-term buy signals, a broker says. However, uncertainty about spring demand for lumber limited gains. May closed up $3.60 per 1,000 board feet at $258.60, trimming the week's decline to 5%. Mills are quoting steady $280-285 prices, but secondary markets show some weaker indications.
Ethanol futures ended higher, following crude oil and corn prices upward. Ethanol for May delivery ended up 0.35% at $2.298 per gallon.
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Federal forecasters left the outlook for U.S. food-price inflation unchanged at 2.5% to 3.5% in a monthly update.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture continues to see a slight moderating of food inflation this year after a 3.7% jump in 2011. Food prices have averaged an annual increase of about 2.8% since 1990, according to the agency.
Driving the recent gains in food prices has been a nearly two-year surge in crop prices as world demand climbs and harvests fall short of expectations. The USDA continues to see prices for meats, poultry and fish outpacing overall food inflation, forecasting a 3.5% to 4.5% increase this year.
The only category federal forecasters changed from a month ago was what's known as other foods. It lifted the forecast range to 3% to 4% from 2% to 3%. Other food includes a variety of mostly processed items such as soups, baby food and frozen prepared foods.
Rising commodity prices tend to trickle down to such items last because of their long shelf life and the time it takes for them to move from raw materials on the farm to finished products in the grocery store, the agency said.
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Singapore is exploring the feasibility of hosting international futures trading in rice as part of efforts to control price volatility across Southeast Asia, government and industry officials said.
The viability of establishing a regional rice futures exchange in Singapore or launching rice futures through one of the existing exchanges is being examined, and Nanyang Technological University has been asked to conduct due diligence and solicit the views of various stakeholders, one of the government officials said.
The initiative involves Singapore's National Policy Coordination Secretariat, the Ministry of Trade and Industry and the state-run International Enterprise Singapore.
Experts from the government and private sector met Thursday and Friday at Nanyang Technological University to discuss the proposal.
Rice, the staple diet of billions of people, is a politically sensitive commodity. Record-high prices of more than $1,000 a metric ton reached in 2008 have led to a range of proposals intended to control price volatility, including creating regional buffer stocks and lowering trade barriers.
The latest government-linked initiative reflects the importance of rice in official circles. Usually, bourses directly make a business decision to start futures trading in a commodity, subject to regulatory approval of authorities.
Singapore is politically neutral and a major regional trading hub, so it is ideally suited to put a rice derivatives platform in place, a participant at the meeting said.
However, most participants said establishing an international rice futures trading platform in Singapore would be a challenge because global trade in rice is relatively small while intervention of governments in pricing, import levels and tariffs is heavy and widespread.
Most rice is consumed where it is produced. Globally traded rice totals barely 30 million tons compared with 95 million tons in corn and 135 million tons in wheat, and the market structure is fragmented, said Mohammed Ismet, a Jakarta-based agricultural economist and former adviser to Indonesia's state-run procurement agency, Bulog.
In addition, the number of grades and varieties makes it difficult to set a common standard for trading purposes, he noted.
However, some analysts say such fragmentation and multiple grades is true of all agricultural commodities, and that futures trading in rice hasn't taken off in Asia because of massive government intervention.
Government price intervention and a lack of liquidity are responsible for the low volume of trade in Thai rice futures, said Korbsook Iamsuri, president of Thai Rice Futures Association.
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Not a single grain truck made it to the port complexes lining the Parana river, the hub for Argentine grain exports, on Thursday as a truckers' strike dragged on through it's third day, according to the Rosario Grain Exchange.
Representatives with the transport union Fetra have been in talks with grain exporters and labor ministry officials, but little progress has been made in a dispute over minimum transport fees.
"The indefinite [strike] measures continue," Fetra said in a statement Thursday.
Earlier this week, Argentina's grain exchanges, exporters and farm groups asked for the government to step in to mediate the dispute.
The Fetra strike is the latest in a series of union walkouts coinciding with the start of the corn and soybean harvests, when exporters face heavy pressure to reach a quick deal to get boats loaded.
Argentina is the world's second-largest corn exporter, leads soymeal and soyoil exports, and ranks third in soybean shipments. Exports are dominated by many of the leading international grain brokers, including Louis Dreyfus SA, Noble Argentina, Nidera, Vicentin, and the local units of Bunge Ltd. (BG) and Cargill Inc.
Work stoppages are common this time of year but Argentina's grain exporters are gearing up for a particularly tense strike season this year as workers press for steep pay raises at a time of double-digit inflation.
Economists have said those wage increases are the product of inflation most private-sector forecasters estimate at between 20% and 25%.
While those strikes will delay many shipments and add costs, the overall impact on international markets is expected to be limited.
Analysts have said a walkout would have to extend three weeks before grain importers shift buying to other markets like the U.S., where corn and soybeans are trading at a premium to South American grains.
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China's corn deficit may rise in coming years because of a swift increase in demand for corn used for processing, state-run Xinhua news agency reported Thursday, quoting a senior cabinet analyst.
Cheng Guoqiang, the deputy director of the executive office of the State Council Development Research Center, the cabinet's think tank, was cited as saying that the balance of supply and demand of corn in China appeared to be reaching a tipping point, with demand now outpacing supply.
Domestic corn-processing demand has risen 40% from 2008 to 45 million-50 million metric tons annually, he said, speaking at a conference.
Even with a record harvests, China could see a supply deficit because of the swift rise of processing demand, he said at the Bo'ao Forum for Asia.
Cheng said China imported about 5 million tons of corn in 2011, and he projected the figure to rise in 2012. The 2011 figure may include bookings that have not yet been delivered to China, according to Dow Jones Newswires' assessment of customs data.
Other local media reports said Cheng projected that by 2020 China may see a corn deficit of around 20 million tons annually.
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The U.S. appealed a World Trade Organization ruling against meat-labeling requirements, a trade official confirmed, challenging last year's decision that the country-of-origin requirements discriminated against livestock from Canada and Mexico.
The U.S. will defend the design of its so-called COOL labeling requirements for beef and pork, said Andrea Mead, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Trade Representative's office.
While the world trade body backed the U.S. right to adopt labeling requirements, "we were disappointed that the Panel disagreed with the way that the United States designed its COOL requirements with regard to beef and pork," said Mead.
The November ruling, which was hailed by Canada and Mexico, found that U.S. labeling requirements treat their livestock imports less favorably than domestic beef and pork products. It also determined that the rules don't fulfill the objective of providing consumers with information.
Both U.S. and Canadian beef producers had been pushing for the U.S. to comply with the ruling and make changes to remove any discriminatory measures of the labeling requirements. U.S. pork producers had also urged the Obama administration to avoid a "trade war."
However, U.S. consumer advocates complain that recent WTO rulings against U.S. meat origin and dolphin-safe labeling are undermining consumer protection measures.
Todd Tucker, research director, at Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, applauded the U.S. appeal, saying the WTO's legitimacy would be further undermined if the appeals panel upholds the November decision.
"The implications for this ruling are dire, especially in the context of a decades- long battle to ensure that consumers know the source of their meat," said Tucker.
The Canadian Cattlemen's Association argues that the requirements have provided no quantifiable benefit to U.S. livestock producers since it came into effect in 2008, pushing up the cost of companies that import cattle. The group reported a drop in U.S. imports of Canadian feeder cattle of about 6,000 head a week during the first year and a half after the COOL requirements went into effect in 2008, from about 10,494 head per week the year before.
The Mexican government had also complained that labeling requirements included in the U.S. 2008 farm bill had pushed up the cost of livestock sent to the U.S. by $50 to $60 a head.
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Japanese rice growers in north-eastern prefectures are testing soil for radiation levels before they embark on their 2012 plantings and preliminary indications are that production will be little changed on year at 7.7 million metric tons, industry officials said.
Japan was hit by a devastating earthquake and tsunami in March last year that damaged the nuclear reactor in Fukushima and raised radioactive levels in the vicinity.
Detailed testing of soil is being carried out, and in those fields where radiation levels are above normal, planting won't take place this year, General Manager of Tokyo Grain Exchange, Masahiro Yamashita, said on the sidelines of a meeting of rice experts here at the Nanyang Technological University.
Last year, the Japanese government restricted the planting of rice in soil with more than 5,000 becquerels per kilogram of cesium. Around 200,000 tons of rice was lost last year, mostly in north-eastern Japan due to lower plantings, damage to warehouses, or the inability to sell grain with high radiation levels, Yamashita said.
Fukushima's rice production in milled terms fell to around 365,000 tons last year from an average of 420,000 tons and at least another 10% was unfit for consumption due to high radiation levels, President of Continental Rice Corp., Nobuyuki Chino, said.
Rice plantings will take place in some areas such as Hokkaido in April but in the north-eastern prefectures it is mostly during mid-May to early-June period, Chino said.
The quake and tsunami affected mainly the Aomori, Iwate, Miyagi and Fukishima prefectures which together account for about 17%-18% of Japan's annual rice production but timely plantings ensured that the harvest wasn't significantly affected, though many areas were also hit by saline ocean water.
Even though the country is self-sufficient in rice production and Japanese consumers have a very clear preference for domestically produced, higher quality rice, the government is required to import 770,000 tons of rice a year to meet various market access commitments under its international trade obligations.
But the government rarely releases imported rice into the market as this can depress prices and drive high-cost domestic farmers out of business, Chino said. Imported rice is periodically sold off as animal feed to make room for fresh imports. When a global supply shortage pushed up international prices in 2008, the Japanese government was able to re-export some of the imported at a profit.
Japanese rice prices are fixed through monthly or quarterly agreements between agricultural cooperatives and local wholesalers. Some supermarkets and retailers also have direct tie-ups with the cooperatives.
However, Chino said the re-launch of rice futures in Japan after more than 70 years in 2011 has created an alternative pricing tool and many growers are tracking the prices on Tokyo Grain Exchange Inc.
The rice futures is yet to take off in a big way but open interest at one point did rise above 5,000 contracts and is currently around 3,000 contracts, Yamashita said.
Around 500 contracts are traded daily but volume may pick up when the new crop is harvested later this year, he said.
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Darden Restaurants Inc. said improvements at Olive Garden--its largest chain--are helping to drive profits lately, but investors are skeptical as to whether that momentum is sustainable.
Darden, which also owns Red Lobster, LongHorn Steakhouse and a few small restaurant chains, has seen its business fluctuate with the shaky economy. The company has struggled to stay attractive to value-oriented consumers while dealing with higher food costs and tougher competition.
"The need for affordability continues," said Chief Executive Clarence Otis during a conference call. "We saw it in a more pronounced way early in our fiscal year...and, while we're still seeing some softness in [appetizers, desserts or other add-ons], it's not at the same elevated levels."
Darden's fiscal third-quarter earnings rose 8.5% as it brought in more guests, though diners tended to order fewer or lower-priced items, indicating continuing economic constraints on consumers.
Darden said the current quarter's performance will depend largely on the economy. "You've got a mixed picture right now, because the jobs news is actually positive, but you do have spikes in gasoline and food costs, so we think given that...it's appropriate to have a broad range as we look out to the fourth quarter," Otis said.
Darden's shares were recently down 2% to $50.82, though still representing a 7.5% gain from a year ago, which is in line with the broader market.
Olive Garden, which generates almost half of the company's revenue, reported growing same-store sales for the first time in more than a year. "We believe the primary cause of the same restaurant sales softness during the past year or so has been a narrowing in the value leadership advantage Olive Garden enjoyed," said Chief Operating Officer Andrew Madsen during the call.
Olive Garden's same-store sales boost of 2%, combined with LongHorn's 6.7% and Red Lobster's 6%, resulted in a total U.S. same-store sales increase of 4.1%, which exceeded those of other casual-dining chains, according to industry bellwether Knapp Track.
The results were aided by milder winter weather and a shift of the Lenten season--when Catholics eat meatless dishes such as seafood and pasta--into Darden's third quarter.
"Fundamentally, the company still continues to outperform its peers, but Olive Garden's struggles over the past year caused management to lose some of its credibility," said restaurant analyst Steve West of Investment Technology Group Inc. He said it will take more than one quarter of positive results to tell whether a turnaround at Olive Garden has taken hold.
In the recent quarter, Olive Garden's Three-Course Italian Dinner deal for $12.95 drew attention from value-hungry consumers--which the company expected it lost last year when it promoted Olive Garden's "story," specific new menu items, and culinary appeal, rather than pushing price, value and themed specials in its advertisements.
Management credited a recent marketing shift for boosting Olive Garden's sales and traffic. "As a result, over the next several months you should expect to see a continuation of our new promotional strategy," Madsen said, with advertising that has "a more overt value message, as well as more affordable core menu dishes."
Also, he said remodeling Olive Garden restaurants, which will be completed by the end of fiscal 2015, will draw in more guests.
For the third quarter, which ended Feb. 26, Darden reported a profit of $164.1 million, or $1.25 a share, up from $151.2 million, or $1.08, a year earlier. Its February guidance was for per-share earnings of $1.23 to $1.25, ahead of analysts' estimates at the time. Last month, Darden reported preliminary results for the quarter.
Sales jumped 9.3% to $2.16 billion, just above analysts' expectations of $2.15 billion, according to Thomson Reuters. Darden's operating margin fell to 24.7% from 25.2%.
The company also backed its forecast for full-year U.S. same-restaurant sales growth of 2.5% to 3% and said it still expects to open about 85 to 90 net new restaurants in fiscal 2012, excluding the addition of 11 Eddie V's restaurants.
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In the present and future of sports fan engagement, artificial intelligence (AI) continues to power new kinds of fan experiences in a range of ways. Catered to preference and persona; AI will be able to recommend options based on historical choices and interact through chatbots in real time. For the experience to truly take off, a collective effort is required from sports brands and sponsors, stadium real estate, cloud providers, nimble tech innovators and of course, buy-in from the fans themselves.
According to Jan Kees Mons, Consultant and Sports Commentator at Eurosport, stadiums will be instrumental as they will become major content and data providers in order to deliver the ultimate customer journey inside a stadium, and hence satisfy the demands of the fans. In fact, stadiums and fan platforms will become ‘data temples’, thinks Mons. Equipped with this data, tailor-made marketing campaigns, games and sales recommendations can be made, which should add to the fan experience.
“The entire future customer journey of a fan will be hugely affected by AI. Imagine yourself wanting to go to a football match. Ordering your tickets will be determined by chatbot-assisted AI, your AI-assisted car will drive itself to the stadium, drop you off at the entrance and find itself a parking spot. You won’t have to queue as AI-powered crowd management systems will take care of congestion assisted by facial recognition etc. Once in the stadium, AI will recognise who you are and what fan profile you have, so it can provide you with a tailor-made experience instead of a one-for-all experience. AI-powered chatbots will give you a personal treatment like never before, making you feel like a VIP. Whether it is related to food, merchandise or social media, AI will come up with the right suggestions. An AI-assited control centre with security personnel will oversee and monitor your safety so that you do not have to worry about terrorist threats or hooligans. Once at home, AI will take care of all your personal highlights during the game, so you have something great to remember,” said Mons.
Data unlocks new levels of experience
Sports science may now be widespread in most elite sports, but much ‘behind the scenes’ data isn’t immediately available to fans. It’s a realistic expectation that some will cash in on this rich vein of data and analytics, so it can migrate into the supporter’s experience and create a multitude of potential insights to be interpreted by fans and fed into areas like the betting industry. Highly-tailored experiences also bring with them more relevant content experiences for the customer and for advertisers, increased accuracy and locality of their messages.
Substantial investments into direct-to-consumer platforms and enhanced streaming capabilities have already begun, powered by AI on the cloud from the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Back in 2020, Microsoft and the NBA announced a partnership that changed basketball. The NBA’s vast array of data sources and extensive historical video archive became available to fans through state-of-the-art machine learning, cognitive search and advanced data analytics solutions. Satya Nadella, CEO, Microsoft said at the time that: “We’re thrilled to serve as the official AI partner of the NBA. Together, we’ll bring fans closer to the game and players they love with new personalised experiences.”
Richard Einstein is the Senior Global Product Manager for Sports at Vizrt, a global market leader in 3D graphics, studio automation, sports analysis and asset management tools for the media industry. Einstein suggests that another example of untapped data potential lies within Formula 1’s partnership with AWS, to leverage machine learning in analysing 65 years of historical race data, offering viewers analysis, insight, and predictions for the current in-race action.
“The sole objective behind utilising this type of automated and Machine Learning (ML) technology is to make the sport more engaging, immersive, and impressive to fans at home. AI in sports also helps automate and speed up all processes that surround telling a more immersive story for fans, alongside driving efficiency by eliminating human caused errors. Increased interactions from viewers translate to better viewership numbers for broadcasters and thus business success. Establishing that connection with at-home audiences is even more critical since the pandemic with a majority of fans experiencing their favourite sports through the screen instead of in person,” said Einstein.
Immersive storytelling opportunities
Einstein goes on to add: “Spectacular on-screen sports success is contingent on the availability of data and the ability of the storyteller to turn that data into analysis and an exciting narrative. AI expedites this process and breaks down data better to enhance the story for audiences. AI can rapidly work with massive amounts of data to pull-out key stats, patterns, and real-time predictions of plays, matches, results, and more, in a sports context, to enhance the storytelling for audiences,” he said.
Spark Compass, part of Total Communicator Solutions, is a communication platform that enables fan engagement and creates new levels of communication when engaging with a sport or team, both on premise and digitally. Spark Compass have been working on connecting the physical with the digital for years. Founder and tech entrepreneur, Erik Bjontegard remembers how it all started for them at the University of Mississippi.
“We activated all the athletics facilities with our patented Spark Compass platform to integrate with fans through the Rebel Rewards app. Even prior to Pokémon Go, we activated the sponsor partner’s location with interactive, geo-located AR games; so if you found the Ole Miss receiver in AR using your phone and were fast enough to throw him a virtual ball that he could catch, you’d win a free lunch at the location you were at – and get 10 extra Bonus Rewards Points”.
IBM Watson brings augmented reality to Wimbledon
Spark Compass have also formed powerful partnerships with the likes of IBM Watson, during the Wimbledon tournament at the All England Lawn and Tennis Club (AELTC). Instead of activating virtual players, Spark Compass activated plaques, sponsor partner’s pop-up stands and printed directories with engaging AR experiences. Over 69 million visitors were attracted to the digital experience.
Speaking at the time, Alexandra Willis, Head of Communications, Content and Digital at the All England Lawn Tennis Club, was effervescent in her praise of the campaign, saying: “Whichever way fans want to experience the tournament, whether it’s online, on their phone, on TV, or live at the venue itself, we want to give them the best possible experience—direct, uninterrupted, and authentic. The new apps are a key part of that strategy.”
Into the metaverse
NFTs are Non-Fungible Tokens, which can be multiple types of assets including images, video, social posts and much more. They’re completely unique, non-interchangeable digital collector items stored on a digital ledger called a blockchain. As these tokens can be transferred and sold by owners like virtual property, they can be bought, sold and shared without fear of duplication. NFTs are immutable, resistant to theft, impossible to forge and easily trackable - and easily purchasable with cryptocurrencies or with traditional currencies.
NFTs give the NHL and other sports a truly unique ability to expand their brands and revenue streams into the digital space, as the Seattle Kraken, whose Climate Pledge Arena has recently undergone a US$1bn overhaul, just recently announced with their first series of NFTs in partnership with Orange Comet in December last year. According to NHL.com, “the inaugural collection will comprise seven innovative, mysterious, and intense designs capturing the essence of the Kraken brand. The drop will include a mystery NFT that will reveal itself to the owner after purchase. There will also be unique real-world opportunities where fans can win tickets, behind the scenes experiences and autographed Kraken Jerseys. The NFTs will be available for purchase at a variety of price points starting at US$50.”
Spark Compass is building NFT3.0 games and venues where fans can activate their own NFTs and use them to enter the digital Metaverse, where they can access global tournaments.
“The venues and tournaments are controlled and owned via NFTs,” says Bjontegard. “We also enable simpler NFT2.0 gameplay based on fantasy league games, where fans can purchase NFT packs with player information. One such game is already in production and early adopters can join at PinMaster.io.”
According to Bjontegard, the development of the metaverse venues will delve into the realms of pure fantasy, with imagination the only limitation. Most excitingly is the capability to activate a physical location with a Metaverse venue, entirely and accurately rendered.
“We’re very excited about this and have created a new division to develop, activate and operate such venues for teams, leagues, tournaments as well as sponsors, merchants and those selling products. With our integration, an entry into the physical stadium can grant you access to the Metaverse stadium later, points earned in the physical realm can be redeemed in the SparkMetaVerse, and items purchased in the SparkMetaVerse can be activating the ownership transfer of a product or file in the physical world.”


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Embracing the Electric Revolution: Navigating Changes in the Motor Industry
The anticipation surrounding the electric revolution has left no sector of the motor industry untouched. From small parts distributors to the giant car manufacturers the impact is expected to be far-reaching, with a myriad of factors contributing to this transformation.
February of 2023 witnessed the European Parliament approval of a new law banning the sale of both petrol and diesel cars from the year 2035 sent shockwaves through industry. This ban not only threatens sales but also accelerates the European Unions’ commitment to combat climate change, driving the rapid transition to electric cars despite stricter emissions standards having already been introduced in recent years. Incentives for consumers electric car adoption and the industry’s focus on sustainability are likely to intensify.
Among the nations most affected by this shift is Germany, which stands as the largest earning nation from fossil fuel vehicles. However, Germany has secured an agreement with the European Commission to manufacture climate-neutral e-fuels vehicles on sale after the 2035 deadline. The European Union has dedicated itself to significantly reduce gas emissions from transport by the year 2050 and has become a strong advocate of electric cars. With cars responsible for 15% of CO2 emissions in the EU alone, it comes as no surprise that they aim to push car makers to reduce carbon emissions from new vehicles to 100%. While not all countries embrace this ban, some seek to slow the pace of the European Laws to manage the transition more effectively.
In March of this year, an alliance led by Germany and France raised the temperature in Brussels by challenging the EU legislation demanding changes. Other countries have joined this alliance calling for the watering down of the new legislation. Italy’s business minister has expressed discontent, arguing that a forced switch to electric vehicles would harm the European car industry and benefit Chinese manufacturers. The proposed ban is just 12 years away, leaving the motor industry with just 144 months to adapt to the impending challenges.
So, what does this mean to the wider motor industry? Technicians will need to acquire new skills and knowledge related to electric drivetrains, high voltage systems, battery technology and specialized diagnostic equipment. Additional training and education will be necessary to adapt to the evolving technologies of electric vehicles. While electric cars generally require less maintenance to their internal combustion engine counterparts, mechanics will experience a shift in both maintenance and repairs. They will need specialized tools and equipment to handle high-voltage systems safely, as well as diagnostic equipment and battery service tools. Proficiency in handling both electric and traditional vehicles will be crucial during the transition period along with high quality service, maintenance and repair information from manufacturers.
Moreover, the popularity of electric cars continues to surge, with manufacturers investing heavily in electric vehicle production. This shift in demand will impact on the automotive supply chain, requiring parts suppliers to refocus on electric vehicle components. Innovations in battery technology aim to address concerns such as range anxiety and high vehicle purchase costs, while improvements in charging time and infrastructure expansion aim to provide a more convenient charging network.
While challenges surrounding power grid capacities, load capacities, extreme weather performance, rare earth materials and battery disposal persist, ongoing research and development seeks to address these concerns and simplify the decision-making process for consumers. Gradual preparation is key for workshops, as electric vehicles become a common feature. Adaptation to the changing landscape involves staying up to date with the latest technology, investing in training, and expanding staff skill sets.
In summary, the transition to electric cars will be gradual, but the presence of traditional vehicles will persist. Workshops must embrace the evolving automotive industry by preparing for the increasing prevalence of electric vehicles. By staying informed and proactive, the motor industry can navigate this revolution successfully.


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Forward sales during the first 15 weeks of the year are also 7 per cent higher than last year at £2billion, with an increasing number of people househunting online.
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The firm said it has sold 7,375 homes in the private market for 2015 with an average selling price of £207,900, which is 4 per cent higher than last year.
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How to build sustainability into your organisation's COVID-19 recovery
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HOW TO BUILD SUSTAINABILITY INTO YOUR ORGANISATION’S COVID-19 RECOVERY
At the end of 2019, environmental, social and governance (ESG) momentum around the world was strong – especially with regard to improving the sustainability of many organisations. But then came COVID-19, forcing many businesses into survival mode. As the world recovers, how can businesses ensure that being greener moves back up the agenda?
Over the past few years, businesses have learned that attracting and retaining customers and employees alike goes hand-in-hand with reporting on and showing a commitment to making a positive impact on sustainability and society, otherwise known as environmental, social and governance (ESG).
Sustainability in particular has been moving up the agenda for many businesses, in an effort to attract both customers and talent. A 2020 IBM study found that 71 per cent of consumers surveyed indicated that traceability of products is very important to them, and that they are willing to pay a premium for brands that provide it. Meanwhile, HSBC’s 2019 Made for the future report found that 24 per cent of organisations said that one of the driving forces behind their investments in sustainability is to improve their ability to recruit and retain the best people.
Organisations have been responding accordingly. Just before the pandemic hit at the end of 2019, the proportion of S&P 500 firms reporting on their ESG performance surged to 90 per cent, from 20 per cent in 2011. Meanwhile, KPMG’s Survey of Sustainability Reporting 2020 has revealed that 80 per cent of companies now report on sustainability, compared with just 12 per cent when the consultancy began tracking sustainability reporting in 1993. The consultancy’s latest report surveyed 5,200 companies in 52 countries.
Also in 2019, the European Commission launched the European Green Deal, which aims to make Europe the first climate-neutral continent. But then COVID-19 hit. Would a pandemic pause, slow or completely halt sustainability progress?
The impact of COVID-19 on workplace sustainability
Patxi Zabala, Director of Corporate Social Responsibility at Spanish industrial and tech company Velatia, says that many companies’ sustainability operations took a hit as a result of having to go into survival mode.
“The impact caused by the COVID-19 crisis had negative effects on businesses, which have had to make decisions that, due to the urgency of managing the impact of the virus on the life of the company and from the economic point of view, are sometimes not entirely sustainable.”
For example, many organisations have had to introduce new rules that require colleagues to wear personal protective equipment, such as masks and gloves. While essential to keep people safe, many items are disposable or single use. However, Ryan Swenson, Head of Sustainable Development at Australia’s Officeworks, points out that sustainability reduction in some areas does not have to result in an overall reduction in sustainability performance. “The health, safety and wellbeing of team members and customers must remain the first priority, but this doesn’t mean sustainability practices have to be compromised,” he says. Despite the new demands on workers, in October 2020 Officeworks was still able to launch its Positive Difference Plan 2025 – a five-year strategy for the team, community and environment – and has continued to progress towards becoming a zero-waste business and its net zero goal.
How can organisations build sustainability into their post-COVID-19 recovery?
So as organisations look ahead, how can they ensure that sustainability moves back up their agenda and forms a part of their recovery? Zabala believes that it is important that businesses which have discovered more sustainable practices don’t revert to old habits when they reach the other side of the pandemic. “In those cases where the crisis is having a positive impact on more sustainable management in terms of ESG, businesses should consider maintaining these changes by identifying their sustainable purpose and the profitability associated with better and greater sustainable management,” he explains, adding that increased public awareness of the need for sustainability will “make it easy, not only to return to some sustainable practices but also to develop many others.”
For example, the pandemic has also seen a significant reduction in business travel, which normally accounts for 12 per cent of global transport emissions, equating to 915 million tonnes of CO2 in 2019. Yet during the pandemic, there has been an unprecedented reduction in overall air pollution of up to 60 per cent, which takes into account not only international travel but the daily commute, too. This has been made possible because remote working, something that wasn’t available across the board before the pandemic, has been forced upon employers and employees, who are utilising programs such as Slack, Zoom and Teams to continue to work effectively. A global survey undertaken by Slack in October 2020 revealed that 72 per cent of people would prefer a mixture of office- and remote-based working, with just 12 per cent wanting to return to the office full time.
Furthermore, some businesses (including Deloitte and PwC) have already gone on record to say that sustained business travel reduction will form part of their ongoing plans to reduce emissions to net zero. But looking further ahead, what can leaders do to ensure sustainability moves back up the agenda within their organisation?
1. Take the chance to change behaviours
For Professor Dr Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, Chair of Sustainable Business at Germany’s University of Mannheim, there is hope that these newfound sustainable practices will remain the norm. “Research on sustainable behaviours has repeatedly shown that it is very hard to change habitual behaviours and routines,” she explains. “Thus, this unexpected disruption of our normal work-related behaviours offers a great opportunity for permanent change.” She also adds that many unsustainable practices as a result of the pandemic can be once again removed from business when the pandemic is over. “During the pandemic some industries were forced to use more unsustainable business practices, for example due to an increased delivery of products or use of plastic packaging; however, many of these will not be necessary anymore after the pandemic.”
Companies can also look at ways to make commuting into work – wherever that may be in the future – more inclusive and sustainable, with nearly 25 per cent of employees having left a job because of the commute. Organisations can look to subsidise commute costs and provide alternatives to company cars – which have been shown to increase household vehicle use by 25 per cent – such as cycling schemes.
2. Challenge suppliers to be more sustainable
Businesses can also take the opportunity to revisit supply chains; for example, companies can indirectly become more climate resilient and fairer to society and individuals. “We can achieve more through collective action than as a single organisation, so collaboration with many of our stakeholders, including suppliers and government, is really important,” says Swenson. IKEA’s supplier code of conduct, for example, requires that suppliers meet their standards in areas including working hours, employee benefits and wages, chemicals, waste, business ethics, the environment, child labour and discrimination before IKEA will consider working with them. Meanwhile, German sporting goods company Vaude has engaged with the German Government and stakeholders to co-create the ‘Grüner Knopf’ (the green button), a sustainability label for its textiles.
These sorts of initiatives are requiring companies all over the world to be more transparent, which will lead to more companies needing to identify their own supply chain risks. This is something The Sustainability Consortium (a global non-profit sustainability organisation) is helping companies to do through its commodities mapping tool, which addresses where the risks are, what the risks are and how these issues can be addressed.
3. Encourage sustainable behaviour at all levels
Within business, however, it’s not just down to the upper echelon to encourage change. “It’s everybody’s responsibility to question the status quo and to participate in rebuilding and shaping our economy of the future. Of course top managers have greater power to change structures and processes, but employees are an equally important driver of change in organisations,” says Edinger-Schons. “And for those privileged few of us that are not facing existential threats due to the pandemic because we have secure jobs, I would say that our responsibility is even higher.”
But the responsibility to rebuild sustainability does not lie with businesses alone. Governments have a role to play here too – something that we’re already seeing in Spain. The country is set to receive around €140 billion from NextGenerationEU, the European Union’s recovery plan, which will go towards Spain’s Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. The plan covers green fiscal reform and includes bringing forward the country’s Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan goals from 2025 to 2023, the introduction of 250,000 electric vehicles, boosting renewables, especially floating offshore wind farms, reinforcing the grid and investing in smart grids.
The business fabric of the plan has been framed in a document put together by the Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations. “It involves the entire value chain of companies. Through their awareness, and the implementation of a purchasing policy that incorporates ESG criteria, they must prominently emphasise the protection of human rights,” explains Zabala.
4. Make sustainability part of your organisational purpose
It’s easy to see how investing in industries that support existing sustainability momentum creates more jobs, and gives us a ‘greener’ normal after the pandemic. But what about the businesses whose existence was never based around these goals? We’ve already seen that investment banks and wealth managers are creating sustainability-focused portfolios, but what about those that, on paper, have very little need for interaction with sustainability practices?
“For several years now, companies have been worried about what new talent wants,” explains Megan Kashner, Clinical Assistant Professor and Director of Social Impact at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. “Prospective employees want the company they work for to be purpose-driven, to be on the right side of sustainability and to feel their values align with the values of the company. As a result, we’re seeing an increase in jobs that are about sustainable supply chains, that are in clean energy, diversity, equity and inclusion, and that are focused on sustainable finance. We’re seeing some of the biggest financial institutions shift their hiring to put talent behind these necessary initiatives, which it might have seemed they were only giving lip service to previously.” She adds that although previously progress was slow in providing transparency where it wasn’t required by law, “something about the pandemic has accelerated that”, and companies are having to make sure people like what they find.
It’s also fair to expect one of the direct outcomes of the pandemic to be that companies proactively change their hiring policies, as Zabala explains: “2020 was a year of changes, and the health crisis highlighted the need for sustainable models, the great relevance companies have in society and their fundamental role in providing rapid responses to the most critical, global and unexpected situations. In fact, in this pandemic many companies have demonstrated exemplary behaviour by making their resources available to the community, responding to productive, health, economic, material and social needs.”
So whether it’s an increase in jobs directly in the field of tackling climate change, or in roles in businesses that put sustainability at the forefront of a company’s ethos, the experts believe more jobs are coming. Zabala concludes that intelligent organisations understand this opportunity.
“They are reorienting their business models, with investments of millions in some cases, and with a positive impact on their entire value chain with the creation of thousands of jobs.”
Head of Investor Relations, Hays
David Phillips is the Head of Investor Relations and Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) strategy at Hays. After qualifying as an accountant, he moved into fund management and spent six years as a UK equities investment manager in Scotland. He then spent 11 years in equity research and became a top-ranked analyst, running Citi’s UK Midcap research team and setting up Redburn’s Business Services team, before joining Hays in 2017 as Head of Investor Relations.
He has a deep-rooted passion for ESG issues, and firmly believes that the best companies are those who demonstrate leadership in ESG. He is co-ordinating Hays’ route to Net Zero carbon by the end of 2021.


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Antimony:(CNN) – The maker Zhu Zhu pets, one of the best-selling games in the holiday season, and defended the product and the consumer after its Web site that one of the robotic hamsters carrying large quantities of hazardous chemicals.
Mister Scribble, in the light brown version of animals, unsafe levels of arsenic, antimony, “said Dara O’Rourke, co-founder of GoodGuide.
This chemical can cause cancer and lung and heart problems, according to GoodGuide.
“We have found levels of about 93 up to 106 parts per million,” said O’Rourke. “The new standard Federal about 60 parts per million.”
But the manufacturer of the game, St. Louis, Missouri-based Cepia LLC, said its products are safe.
“All our products undergo several levels of rigorous testing conducted by the safety of their own internal teams, as well as the world’s leading independent quality assurance testing organization, as well as in independent laboratories operated by our partners in retail,” Hornsby Ross, Chief Executive Officer Cepia said in a statement written. “The results of all tests prove that our products are in compliance with all safety standards, government and industry.”
Bruce Katz, a senior vice president of Cepia, told CNN: “They do not contain high levels of antimony in any form.
“None of these experiments have failed over the past several months has been the production of this product.”
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You might take good care of your online privacy. You might use one of the best VPN services every time you go online. You also make sure to secure your important communications with encrypted messaging apps.
However, one day you may realize that your name and phone number are available for anyone to access them without you even knowing it.
Wildly collecting and exposing people's phone details without their consent is one of the main allegations against the popular scam call-blocking software Truecaller.
The US-based Viceroy Research - which describes itself as an international investigative financial group - filed this and other violations in its last detailed report, which digs inside both the company's business model and security infrastructure.
Despite Truecaller denying all accusations and Viceroy Research being sued for false claims in the past, many questions around the app's privacy protections remain.
Truecaller’s true colours revealed?A report by @viceroyresearch alleges that @Truecaller (“TC”) isn’t as “privacy-focused” as it claims to be. It accuses TC of, among other things, collecting user data without obtaining their explicit consent. 1/8https://t.co/II6rFlz7H9October 10, 2022
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Truecaller is a mobile app available for Android and iOS devices that automatically filters and block untrustworthy calls to prevent spam.
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Users will simply need to provide their phone number to start using the service. The app will then access their contacts to build up its phonebook and improve its spam database. It even blocks malicious messages before they can reach your device.
As the tech firm argues on its official website: "Truecaller is proud to be a leader in caller ID and spam blocking software as well as research around call and SMS harassment."
A Swedish-based company, Truecaller is particularly popular across the Sub-Saharan African region and India. The latter is actually its top market globally, boasting now more than 190 million daily active users according to The Economic Times.
This is not surprising as India is among the countries receiving the most spam calls.
More remarkable, perhaps, is the fact that the company actually moved its operations and data servers in India in 2018. And, according to Viceroy, there are some shady reasons lurking behind this business turn.
The allegations: from security breaches to invasive data collection
In its Truecaller’s True Colors report, Viceroy Research lays out quite a few claims against the benevolent nature of the popular call-blocking app.
When users install Truecaller on their smartphone, the incriminated app asks permission to access their list of contacts to feed its own phonebook. This means that people's phone numbers will end up on its database just because they are saved on a device that uses such a tool, without them agreeing to it.
So, how is Truecaller able to conduct its operations in this way, then?
To bypass app stores' regulation, for example, the company has been reported to have made deals with Android phone manufacturers to pre-install its app on new devices. Plus, it doesn't need to comply with these rules if people sign-in from their browser.
As mentioned before, in 2018 Truecaller moved all its data centers to India. And, guess what also happened that year? GDPR was introduced. However, according to Viceroy's researchers: "Truecaller is still subject to GDPR regulations, and these regulations apply to all Truecaller users."
Viceroy also accuses the Swedish company of evading taxes in India - a country where its sales grew 133% between January and June this year. They also found Truecaller guilty of spamming their users with invasive ads and web trackers. Researchers are especially worried about how the software indiscriminately collects such sensitive data about minors, too.
What's worse is that Viceroy isn't the first to investigate Truecaller's alleged privacy abuses and security breaches. Below are just some examples.
In 2013, an investigation on how a group of Syrian hackers (the Syrian Electronic Army) was able to exploit the app database put under scrutiny its security model in place.
The Article 29 Working Party, at the time independent European advisory body on data protection, already raised its concerns over TrueCaller’s compliance with data protection laws in 2017.
In 2019, there were then a few reports showing how the data of many Truecaller users - most Indians - had been exposed on the dark web. Privacy International pointed out the dangers of ending up on the Truecaller database for journalists and other users whose privacy is paramount.
At the time, the privacy advocates recommended the company take action to fix its privacy issues. However, "TrueCaller acknowledged our response but did not show an interest in following those steps."
More recently, Indian investigative magazine The Caravan looked at how Truecaller's ‘Enhanced Search’ makes users automatically share all their contacts details like names, numbers and email addresses.
It also reported on an even more worrying dynamic. Former Truecaller employees told The Caravan that the app can access user SMS messages to build a financial profile of its users. As it's common practice for Indian banks to communicate with their customers via SMS, "this ability...could allow the app to send loan offers to people when their bank balance goes down below a certain limit."
Truecaller promptly replied to such allegations, denying that any privacy abuses occurred.
Specifically, the company responded to The Caravan's investigation claiming that: "Truecaller is not interested in building or collecting financial profiles of its users."
It also argued that the Caravan's ‘Enhanced Search’ accusation was factually incorrect. However, Viceroy Research found the feature auto-checking for new users in India until September 28.
At the same time, Truecaller also slammed Viceroy's misconduct claims as false. "The short seller made various false and unverified statements about us," a spokesperson told TechRadar.
For instance, the provider said that the reason why it moved to India was actually getting closer to its bigger chunk of users to deliver faster performances. It also points out that it needs the permission to access the phonebook to properly function. However, the company assures that users' privacy is not violated.
So, from one side to the other, many doubts still remain.
What's certain is that, with India's new data protection law on its way, the Swedish company would soon need to align its data collection practices with new regulations if it doesn't want to respond in court for failing to do so.
Chiara is a multimedia journalist committed to covering stories to help promote the rights and denounce the abuses of the digital side of life—wherever cybersecurity, markets and politics tangle up. She mainly writes news, interviews and analysis on data privacy, online censorship, digital rights, cybercrime, and security software, with a special focus on VPNs, for TechRadar Pro, TechRadar and Tom’s Guide. Got a story, tip-off or something tech-interesting to say? Reach out to email@example.com


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The "no oil" group was informed of the trial proposal and therefore could consume fish oil
or fish during the third trimester if they chose to do so.
Since, Pakistan is an agricultural country, having greater production of soybean oil (467-1314kg/hector/ annum), olive oil (500-1000 kg/ hector/ annum) and palm oil (1000 MT /year), these oils can be used as alternate source of fish oil
They found that the addition of 2% fish oil
in the broiler diet might stimulate the development of the immune response and improve blood indices, while 4% additive fish oil
should not be used because of probable off-flavors in the poultry products.
The children of the fish oil
takers also had a 25 percent lower risk of lower respiratory tract infections (bronchiolitis or pneumonia)--but no lower risk of eczema, allergic sensitization, or asthma exacerbations--than the children of the placebo takers.
The supplement and functional food segment fuels the lucrative fish oil
category with high year-over-year revenue growth;
For these reasons, fish oil
supplements were promoted as an easy way to protect against these conditions and diseases, and grew into a $1 billion-a-year business.
The problem of fish oil
is easily damaged by oxidation and the effect of heating temperature, so that when applied in the food industry to consider the quality and stability of the fish oil fish oil
especially unsaturated fatty acids is high including EPA and DHA are highly susceptible to oxidation.
While green-lipped mussel extract is an Omega rich fish oil
of its own, it's more complex than standard fish oil
and, according to the company that's developed it, Lyprinol packs more punch.
The global market for fish oil
is expected to reach USD 3,300.
We wish to draw the attention of SAMJ readers to the findings of a recent survey on the omega-3 fatty acid content of fish oil
supplements available on the SA market.
According to lead researcher and professor Maria Makrides of the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute and the University of Adelaide, the findings of the study are "significant," considering the promotion fish oil
Washington, May 23 ( ANI ): A new study has found that widely-used fish oil
supplements modestly increase amounts of a hormone that is associated with lower risk of diabetes and heart disease.


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The Agricultural Retailers Association (ARA) sent a letter to President Trump, asking for flexibilities for ag retailers can complete their jobs alongside farmers during the COVID-19 pandemic. One of the issues the letter addressed was the product inventory during these uncertain times.
According to Chuck Lippstreu, president of the Michigan Agribusiness Association (MABA), Michigan has sufficient inventory headed into spring.
“Here at the Michigan Agribusiness Association, ag retail is a critical component of our membership,” said Lippstreu. “In talking with ag retailers across Michigan, right now we are inventoried well, and we have the inventory to get the farmer into the field.”
He said MABA is keeping a close eye on supply chains because resupply could be an issue. However, there are still a lot of unknowns with this pandemic.
“We’re very closely tracking the ability to get drivers into trucks to transport product and looking back down the supply chain to manufacturing and warehousing because we don’t know how this is going to play out,” he said. “Right now we have the tools farmers need to get into the field, and we’re working through this on a day-by-day basis—closely following the facts, closely following what’s happening on the ground.”
As farmers are making planting decisions and working with their retailers, the coronavirus is making it harder to make plans. That issue is something Lippstreu and MABA is struggling with currently.
“Usually we can have some sense of what’s coming down the line—we can talk about issues as we have been like trade, workforce and things of that nature where there’s uncertainty, but we also have some sense of what we can control and think about,” said Lippstreu. “With coronavirus, this is completely uncharted, and we don’t know how it’s going to turn out.”
Lippstreu is confident in our national and state leaders to monitor the situation and do what they can. One question he’s been hearing frequently is, “What would happen to Michigan’s food and agriculture sector if there were to be a shelter-in-place order?”
“Here in Michigan at a state level, there’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that Gov. Whitmer and her team consider agriculture essential to getting us through this,” he said. We’ve been in close contact with them and MDARD. MDARD has done a great job of reaching out to our industry and working with leaders across agriculture to communicate and also hear from us about what’s happening across the state.”
Lippstreu encourages farmers and agribusinesses in Michigan to pay close attention to the facts and rest assured MABA is doing what they can to supply everyone with the most accurate and up-to-date information.
“As we head into spring—for farmers, ag retailers and anybody there on the supply chain—it’s a matter of taking things day-by-day, looking at the facts while planning for contingencies into the future,” he said.


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SOARIZON by Thales has confirmed its first in a series of strategic partnerships.
It has teamed up with CG Labs, a company specialising in the capture and processing of data.
Based in Milton Keynes, UK, CG Labs works across a variety of sectors including industrial, construction, agriculture and events specialising in visualization, modelling and measurement.
The partnership will involve the two companies collaborating on strategic opportunities to provide data processing solutions, giving SOARIZON customers a quality end-to-end data acquisition and processing service.
The partnership will provide SOARIZON customers with pre-flight consultancy on the best methodologies for data acquisition, as well as post processing capability.
Services available to SOARIZON customers include: Thermal Condition Reporting, LiDAR manipulation, 2D orthomosaics, 3D models, Digital Elevation, Surface and Terrain Models. All hosted on an accessible, user-friendly platform.
Michael Oliver, head of SOARIZON, commented: “We are delighted to be working with CG Labs to introduce new and exciting capabilities into our service ecosystem. This partnership will bring valuable data processing services to our customers, helping them to further streamline their end-to-end drone operations.”
Adding: “Like SOARIZON, CG Labs has ambitious plans to innovate and continuously improve. This partnership will help us to unlock the true potential of data acquired by drones for business and organisations of all sizes.”


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GLORY BE TO GOD! God’s Prophets and God’s People Are Winning by the Power of God and Have the Sodomites/Homosexuals “LGBTQQIPF2SAA+” on the Run. TARGET, Bud Light, the WOKE Sodomite/Homosexual-Affirming Pastors, and Other Groups Are in Retreat With Their WOKE Sodomite/Homosexual Propaganda Towards Young People and Others. CALLS TO BOYCOTT TARGET INTENSIFIES.
Retail giant Target is about to get an elbow to the head, financially speaking, as conservative and Christian consumers have rallied to strongly oppose the store’s LGBTQ-themed children’s apparel, books, and accessories.
The recent addition of “tuck-friendly” bathing suits and chest binders for “transgender” children to their collection has ignited a storm of criticism from conservative commentators who rightly argue that the items are inappropriate for young audiences. Among the LGBTQ-themed products being sold by Target and marketed to children are shirts featuring slogans like “live laugh lesbian” and “Queer Queer Queer Queer.” The children’s book section also includes titles that promote gender ideology, such as “Bye Bye Binary” and “The Pronoun Book.”
Conservative pundits wasted no time expressing their outrage and calling for action. Matt Walsh, the host at the Daily Wire, criticized Target for selling chest binders and bathing suits designed for “tucking” for children, correctly pointing out that the retailer had crossed a line worse than previous controversies involving companies like Bud Light. Walsh urged fellow conservatives to consider boycotting Target and emphasized consumers’ influence over corporate decisions.
Similarly, conservative musician Five Times August voiced his displeasure at the prominent display of LGBTQ-themed merchandise in Target stores. Sharing photos of the items for sale, he suggested their positioning was aimed at normalizing these products for young children.
To read more, click here: https://protestia.com/2023/05/24/calls-to-boycott-target-intensify-as-they-push-sodomite-propaganda-to-children/


text: The Trump Administration announced yesterday that the US will be implementing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Europe. As a countermeasure, the EU is potentially enacting tariffs of its own on US produced products. Many chapters will be affected, including chapter 22, which covers all alcoholic beverages. The complete list of chapters from the CN (Combined Nomenclature—similar to the US HTS code but with an added two digits) that will be impacted includes 20, 22, 33, 48, 56, 59, 62, 63, 64, 66, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 76, 84, 85, 87, 89, & 94. These countermeasure tariffs could be enacted as soon as June 20, 2018 and could raise prices for EU consumers on everyday products and potentially affect US exports to the EU. While we wait to see how this situation will evolve, it is advisable that companies assess their current business dealings to see how this will potentially impact their bottom line. We will continue to keep tabs on this situation, and will provide further developments as available.


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New Delhi: Drug agency Sanofi India on Wednesday mentioned its board has authorised the demerger of its consumer healthcare business right into a separate entity. The corporate’s board has authorised the Scheme of Association between Sanofi India Ltd (SIL) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Sanofi Client Healthcare India Ltd (SCHIL), the drug maker mentioned in a press release.
The initiative is to demerge SIL‘s shopper healthcare enterprise right into a authorized entity, SCHIL, topic to approval by shareholders and regulators, it added.
This choice will open new gates for the India enterprise and workers in a value-driven transfer to speed up development for each the pharmaceuticals business (SIL) and shopper healthcare enterprise (SCHIL) in India, the drug maker mentioned.
Upon completion of the proposed demerger, Sanofi will proceed to personal 60.4 per cent stake in each entities and SIL shareholders will obtain 1:1 SCHIL fairness share of Rs 10 every, for every fairness share owned.
“This can be a momentous alternative as it would permit Sanofi to unlock and maximise its enterprise potential in each prescription drugs and shopper healthcare, with the proper property, construction, and technique,” Sanofi India Managing Director Rodolfo Hrosz mentioned.
The prescription drugs enterprise will concentrate on its long-term success components, increasing its portfolio of life-changing therapies obtainable in India, and accelerating its digital transformation to enhance the lives of sufferers in India, he added.
The proposed shopper healthcare enterprise would concentrate on consumer-centric strategies and best-in-class digital and ecommerce capabilities, Hrosz mentioned
Sanofi’s shopper healthcare enterprise’ annual turnover for FY2022 stood at Rs 730 crore. The corporate’s prime shopper healthcare manufacturers embody Allegra, DePURA, Avil, and Combiflam.
SCHIL is anticipated to be absolutely operational by the second half of 2024, topic to crucial approvals.
“The proposed demerger will assist each entities construct a sustainable development mannequin. Immediately, Sanofi is in a strengthened place in India, permitting us to ship higher worth to our shareholders and different stakeholders,” SIL Chairman of the Board, Aditya Narayan mentioned.
Different companies of Sanofi in India, corresponding to vaccines and medical research aren’t a part of SIL and therefore, aren’t impacted by this announcement, the corporate said.


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The creation of 3M’s Scotch Tape, the Declaration of Independence and Metallica: just three of the stories Ben Casnocha retells to show the importance of innovation through side projects.
Is giving away a day a week of your employees’ time worth it? Google executives seem to think so. They cite first the enormous goodwill generated internally: “20-percent time sends a strong message of trust to the engineers,” says Marissa Mayer, Google vice president of search products and user experience. Then there is the actual product output which of late includes Google Suggest (auto-filled queries) and Orkut (a social network). In a speech a couple of years ago, Mayer said about 50 percent of new Google products got their start in 20 percent time.
Jack Hipple, a consultant who works with companies on innovation, says corporate support for employees’ natural curiosity can lead to better new product ideas than traditional focus groups: “You have to have some vehicle for side-project time because senior managers or customers don’t know enough about the future to know what’s coming.”
Casnocha notes that not all companies can offer side-project time, especially startups:
There are too many essential tasks that need to get done simply to survive.
Tom Kinnear, a professor of entrepreneurial studies at the University of Michigan, says Google and 3M both could support experimenting after their core products became profitable: “At the outset there are such tight margins it’s hard to allow for side projects. The pressure from your investors to focus, focus, focus is just overwhelming.”


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Easter basket in Ukraine has risen in price: how much will you have to pay
In Ukraine, the Easter basket in 2019 went up by 5.1% – to 532 hryvnia.
Thus, traditional Easter, eggs, sausage, pork, lard, butter, soft and hard cheese, horseradish and salt will cost Ukrainians 26 UAH more than last year, according to the website of the Institute of Agrarian Economics.
In particular, the cost of the main component of the Easter basket – Easter home baking – will be about 85 hryvnia per kilogram. At the same time, ready-made Easter will cost more in stores and supermarkets, since its price will depend on the ingredients.
In Ukraine, called the reasons for the slowdown in price growth to a five-year low
The most expensive components of the festive basket this year will be meat products: 500 grams of homemade sausage will cost Ukrainians 104 hryvnias, cold boiled pork – 98 hryvnias, and bacon – 35 hryvnias.
Among dairy products most will have to pay for cheese – 71 hryvnia for 500 grams and butter – 70 hryvnia for 500 grams. In this case, cottage cheese will cost 32 hryvnia per kilogram.
At the same time, the cheapest products will be eggs – 24 hryvnia for 10 pieces, and horseradish – 12 hryvnia for 250 grams.
Filling the Easter basket with other ingredients, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, apples, red wine, will raise its cost to 711 hryvnia. This is 51 hryvnia, or 7.7%, more than in 2018.
According to the institute, for the fourth year in a row the cheapest Easter basket will be in the Ternopil region – 644 hryvnia, and the most expensive in Kiev – 830 hryvnia.
As reported by careersatglatfelter.com, the monetary policy strategy of the National Bank of Ukraine in 2019 defines the target for inflation in the medium term at the level of 5%. The economist later explained why the regulator would not be able to meet its goals.
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Offaly man named as one of Ireland’s Inspirational Heroes for charity work
An Offaly man has been named as one of Ireland’s Inspirational Heroes for his charity work.
Following a nationwide search to uncover Ireland’s most inspirational people, Ken Smollen is celebrating after being named an Inspirational Hero in the Gala Retail and Virgin Media Inspiration Awards.
Established to shine a light on those individuals who make Ireland a better place with their selfless acts and inspirational deeds, Ken stood out for his dedication to help the lives of those less fortunate. Ken is the founder and a volunteer at the Ken Smollen Food Appeal. With over 1,030 families currently on the list to receive food and groceries, Ken goes out of his way daily to travel all over the Midland counties to make their lives that little bit easier.
Inspirational people from across Ireland were nominated for the Gala Retail and Virgin Media Inspiration Awards, with 26 inspirational county heroes being named from the hundreds of entries received.
Commenting on the quality of the entries, Gary Desmond, CEO of Gala Retail said, “we’re a national brand with a local focus, which is why we’ve partnered with Virgin Media to delivering a national platform to shine a light on and reward the amazing people who are making a real difference to Irish society.
He added, "mow in their third year the Inspiration Awards pay homage to people from all across Ireland who play their part creating a better country for us all. Operating in communities throughout Ireland, Gala Retailers have seen first-hand some of the great work that people have been doing and we are proud to have been able to recognise some of these inspirational individuals. We were overwhelmed by the level of nominations we received and Ken along with the fellow inspirational heroes are true examples of people who are making Ireland a better place for us all.”
2021 marks the third year of the Gala Retail Inspiration Awards created as a way of celebrating the selfless acts and inspirational deeds of people in Ireland who are making the country a better place.
Marian Mattimoe from Mayo was named as Overall Inspirational Person at the Gala Retail and Virgin Media Inspiration Awards.
As a community retailer with 175 convenience stores nationwide, Gala store owners often hear of inspirational stories in their local communities, and this year’s Gala Retail and Virgin Media Inspiration Awards have elevated Ireland’s unsung heroes onto a national stage, giving these inspirational people the recognition they deserve.
Gala Retail has gifted €26,000 of prizes to the winners with the 26 county winners being awarded with €1000 hotel getaways across Ireland. For further information, see www.gala.ie.
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Avira GmbH, the famous German company specialized in computer security, just formalized its entry on the Chinese market. The new company, whose headquarters is located in Beijing, has simultaneously launched its website in simplified Chinese character version. Avira, which already protects 100 million computers around the world thanks to its renowned Antivir antivirus software, is still continuing its expansion in Asia. After settling down in Japan, Malaysia and Hong Kong, Avira is now present in China, attracted by its 384 million Internet users. The CEO of Avira Tjark Auerbach states that his goal is to reach 2 million users in China and give them peace of mind when surfing on internet.
Avira will undoubtedly pay off its gamble thanks to the quality of its product (I personally am a satisfied user), but it will have a lot to do with all those viruses that abound on the Chinese web.
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